Topping this week’s round-up is the investments received by Telisma and Komli.

Silicon Valley-based Telisma received $50 million in funding. The investors include NewPath Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, CMEA Ventures, JAFCO Asia and other strategic investors.

Komli received its first round of funding from DFJ and Helion Ventures. However, Komli did ...

It’s no secret that we rely on our batteries to power just about every consumer electronic device, or that we are increasingly relying on those devices for just about everything we do. Lithium-Ion batteries are considered the next generation battery technology, offering longer life at a lower cost. This ...

In his CES 2007 Keynote, Motorola’s CEO Ed Zander unveiled what’s new for the mobile communications company, with new phone models, new partnerships, and new services for the digital home, as well as the mobile consumer.

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Stepped up activity is the underlying theme of this week’s tech round-up on India.

There is stepped up activity in VC funding in India. Two 10-year old companies received $10 million this past week. Sulekha, an Indian social networking site received $10 million in funding from Norwest Venture Partners. ...

Greg Besio, Motorola’s corporate VP of mobile devices software, talks about Linux in the mobile world, and demos two Linux-based mobile phones popular in China: The Ming and the ROKR E2. The 1st of 2 parts from his keynote address at LinuxWorld & Expo 2006 in ...

Greg Besio, Motorola’s brings on Christy Wyatt, VP for ecosystem and market development at Motorola’s Mobile Devices Business to discuss the latest on MOTODEV and the new places Motorola hopes to take the mobile world. The 2nd of 2 parts from the keynote address at LinuxWorld & Expo 2006 in ...

MENLO PARK, August 8, 2006 (Podtech News) — Sprint Nextel today announced plans to develop and deploy a nationwide wireless broadband mobile network using WiMAX. Sprint said it will work with Intel on mobile WiMAX-enabled chipsets and with Motorola and Samsung on devices. PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau talked with Chris Thomas, ...

What about mobile podcasting? That is podcasts on cell phones? I get this question all the time. I’m not bullish about it in the short term but it is obvious that it will happen. The question is when? Today Alltel announced that they are offering ...

SAN FRANCISCO, July 21, 2006 (PodTech News) – PodTech News wraps the week with two stories of new Web 2.0 services. Yahoo and Motorola said late Wednesday that Motorola will embed Yahoo “Go for Mobile” services on tens of ...

“Seamless mobility…is a convergence of technologies that’s going to unleash an entirely new set of possibilities for developers,” said Christy Wyatt, VP for Ecosystem and Market Development at Motorola’s Mobile Devices Business, during a general session at JavaOne. ...

“Convergence is really going to come together in the entertainment space,” said Rob Shaddock, Chief Technology Officer at Motorola, during a general session at JavaOne. He gave an upbeat presentation with Christy Wyatt, Motorola’s VP of Ecosystem and ...

Why can’t you buy any cell phone and easily use it with most any carrier? Don’t blame Motorola. Chairman and CEO Ed Zander doesn’t blame the carriers either, even though they dictate which phones their customers will use. In this podcast, Zander argues (civilly with Gartner analysts Nick Jones and ...

One piece of Motorola’s business the public usually doesn’t see are the products sold to governments and municipalities, such as wireless communications gear. The systems used by cities and states during 9-11 and Hurricane Katrina did not hold up well, but Motorola Chairman and CEO says product development at his ...

Motorola Chairman and CEO Ed Zander says the ultimate cell phone would come back into the home–that is, it would be the only phone one would need. But that development seems far away for users in North America. “People always say to me, ‘I can go to China, and go ...

John Gage, Chief Researcher and VP, Science Offfice at Sun Microsystems, Inc launches JavaOne before an audience of over 10,000 developers, and introduces Jonathan Schwartz, President and CEO of Sun. Ed Zander CEO of Motorola joined in and discusses the future of mobile computing.

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The Gartner Symposium ITxpo at the Moscone Center in San Francisco features keynote speakers like Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz, Symantec CEO John Thompson, and Motorola CEO Ed Zander. On PodTech we’ll have the keynotes as well as podcasts of interviews with notable Gartner analysts like Martin Reynolds, Steve Kleynhans ...

Las Vegas, NV, April 5, 2006 (PodTech News) - During CTIA 2006, we spoke with the General Manager of Kodak Mobile, Brian Marks, about Kodak’s future in the wireless and mobile space. Through strategic partnerships and innovative thinking, Kodak is taking steps towards applying their expertise and equity in digital ...

Yahoo announced back in July that they were working with Motorola, but now they are showing podcasting with Motorola. Yahoo and Motorola are showcasing the future of how consumers access entertainment on the go.

Podcasting is going everywhere. Great stuff. There is a ...